0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lake Charm · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lake Charm
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost half of all homes in Lake Charm have two motor vehicles, making cars the primary way people move around. This is a car-dependent area where every single household owns at least one vehicle, far outstripping the state and national trends.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in Lake Charm is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.6% of Victorian homes without one. Many households have multiple cars, with 22.9% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lake Charm, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 4 or more (24%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Half of the workforce drives to work, while 13.6% work from home, a figure far below the 25.7% seen across Victoria. No one uses public transport to get to their job.
13.6% ▼ -35.2%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
The area has three public transport routes and one stop, which is more than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Victorian figure.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.80
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
231.3
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
3
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the nearest public transport stop takes about 38 minutes on foot, which is higher than in most other areas.
38
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
More for Lake Charm
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lake Charm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21430/lake-charm/topic/transport